Midcity, AL -- Swat teams have surrounded the property of 65-year-old Jimmy Lee Dykes, the man who stopped a school bus, shot and killed the driver, and took a five-year-old boy hostage, dragging him back to a bunker at his home.

Police made contact with Dykes through a PVC pipe that extends into the bunker. He did allow officers to pass down coloring books and medicine for the boy, identified only as Ethan, who reportedly suffers from Asperger's syndrome and attention-deficit disorder, but negotiations ended after that.

Virgil Skipper, Mayor of Midcity, Alabama outside Dothan says the community has been saying prayers for the boy and hoping he will emerge from the bunker unharmed.

"The boy has some disabilities, and I know he has been crying for his mom and grandmother, but why this man wont release this child is hard for me to understand," said Skipper.